2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 9.2005
NEWS
BY KIM WALLACE
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Chuck Marsh Associate professor of journalism
What is a typical day like for you?
I answer a lot of e-mail because I'm teaching 101, but it starts off with me running out the door, spilling coffee, kissing my kids goodbye. Then there's the whole flurry of teaching, researching. It sounds like I'm dodging the answer, but there's not a typical day.
Why did you decide to teach journalism?
I love storytelling. That happens too much in lecture. I love telling stories. I'm fascinated with the English language; it's the greatest thing since Greek. What better than journalism? Well, maybe a novelist, but I don't have any talent in that area.
Professional quarterback. They never gave me a chance! Lack of talent had a lot to do with it, but I still think if they just suit me up, I could still go in a game. In fact, though, I have no athletic ability. I just wanted to be an NFL quarterback.
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
What classes do you teach?
Journalism 101 Media and Society,435 Message Development,and 608 Ethics,those are the three most common. I teach more strategic communications,but I'm one of those lucky ones that gets to crossover.Ethics is a crossover course.
What is your favorite class to teach?
I don't have a favorite. Whichever one I'm in at the moment, I really don't.
Where did you attend college?
KU, three degrees. I have a BA, MA, and Ph.D. I spent 11 years as a student.
What are you involved with on campus?
KU Libraries committee doctoral committees working with grad students and the School of Education.
What are some of your favorite newspapers?
The Kansan, Lawrence Journal-World, The New York Times, different blogs, the Drudge Report. I like to go to different Web sites. It's important to me to not just go to the conservative ones or the liberal ones, but both. I got to go to Karagatan about 10 years ago and I was so ignorant, I felt so sorry because all the people said "all the media are biased so we have to read five or six newspapers." Now I'm trying to read five or six media from different perspectives to try and figure out where the middle is.
How did it feel to win the HOPE Award the day that KU beat Nebraska?
I told my wife after we beat Nebraska — I haven't been to a KU football game since I was five and I'm 50 — and watched everybody run down onto the field, I said "You know, just drop me off at the mortuary, because I gotta go in and lie down, take me now, just take me now, I've been to the mountain top."
What is your favorite KU tradition?
BUSINESS
My favorite KU tradition is when we're winning a sports event. But my favorite thing about KU is Watson Library. I don't know if that's a tradition, but the best thing about KU is Watson Library. The stacks smell so good and you go back there and you smell the paper — I love Watson Library. But I don't know if that's a tradition. My favorite tradition is when we're winning a game and the Rock Chalk chant begins. Every hair I have left is standing on end; it gives me the shivers — I love it.
Bank helps spenders save
BY ALY BARLAND
abarland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Bank of America is introducing a new program that can help students save whenever they spend.
Bank of America's program, "Keep the Change," allows customers who use Bank of America Visa debit cards to round up their purchases to the nearest dollar. The extra money is automatically deposited into the customer's savings account from the checking account.
Thorne said the program was not intended to encourage dependence on credit or debit cards but was created to help increase savings.
The program will help students because it will force them to save money every time they use their debit cards, said Grant Thorne, manager of Lawrence's Bank of America, 900 Ohio St.
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David Rickard, Memphis, Tenn., junior, has been banking with Bank of America for five years. He
"It would encourage saving because most people don't think fifty cents is a lot of money, but I think it would add up over a year or two," Rickard said.
said he had not yet heard about the new program but said he would be interested in it.
Another benefit of the "Keep the Change" program is that it would allow students to balance their accounts easier because the program rounds up to the nearest whole dollar. Thorne said,
For the first three months of participation in the program, Bank of America will match the savings deposited through purchases. After the three months, Bank of America will continue to match 5 percent of the savings each year.
Dennis Rosen, business professor, teaches a marketing class and said that the program may alleviate guilt that customers feel when they make purchases.
The program was an example of Bank of America trying to distinguish itself from other banks, Rosen said.
is they're tying savings in with spending." Rosen said.
He said it would be important for users of the program to continue to buy things that they need and not to spend frivolously in an attempt to save more with the program.
One student does not have extra money to deposit and would rather not deposit it in a savings account.
"The interesting thing here
Kristen Perdue, Prairie Village junior, is a Bank of America customer but she said she tried to use the debit card sparingly and would not be drawn by the new program.
"I don't have a lot of extra money." Perdue said.
Thorne said that "Keep the Change" started on Oct. 17 and that he had seen a strong interest in the option so far.
"Most of the accounts that are being opened are getting that," Thorne said.
He said that accounts already in existence are adding the option to their account. All customers have to do is notify the bank that they want to participate in the program, and their purchases with the debit card will automatically round up.
To prevent penalties from overdrawing, Bank of America customers can use the overdraft protection policy, which uses funds from the savings account to cover the checking account if it is overdrawn.
The program automatically moves the change from the checking account into the savings account, so users must keep a close eye on the balance in their checking accounts.
Matt Pallen, personal banker at Bank of America, said the bank does benefit from the new program.
"We're benefiting because we are maintaining existing savings accounts and attracting new customers." Pallen said.
Three-wheel circus
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Scott Shorten, Stilwell senior and president of the Interfraternity Council, leans into a corner on his tricycle during a philanthropy event hosted by the IFC. Racers rode tricycles down Campanile Hill on Friday. The event raised $78, which was donated to the Lawrence Boys and Girls Club.
Justin O'Neal/KANSAN
TECHNOLOGY
Web file-sharing service Grokster agrees to shut down, pay damages
LOS ANGELES — The popular Internet file-sharing service Grokster Ltd. may be going the way of Napster.
In a surprise settlement with the recording and movie industry announced Monday, Grokster agreed to shut down its music- and movie-swapping software and pay $50 million in damages.
Grokster executives indicated they planned to launch a legal, fee-based "Grokster 3G" service before year's end under a new parent company, believed to be Mashboxx of Virginia Beach Va.
"It is time for a new beginning," Grokster said in a statement issued from its corporate headquarters in the West Indies. On its Web site, Grokster said it "hopes to have a safe and legal service available soon."
Mashboxx, headed in part by former Grokster President Wayne Rosso, already has signed a licensing agreement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
Grokster lost an important Supreme Court ruling in June when justices ruled that the entertainment industry can file piracy lawsuits against technology companies caught encouraging customers to steal music and movies over the Internet.
The terms of the settlement ban Grokster from participating, directly or indirectly, in the theft of copyrighted files and requires the company to stop giving away its software.
Grokster's settlement does not affect other defendants in the case, including StreamCast Networks Inc., which distributes Morpheus, and Sharman Networks Ltd., which distributes Kazaa.
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